Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL

[Joshua Levitsky]

Except that you are contributing to their database of valid addresses so you get other spam and you are doing "business" with a spammer... even if it is a free list. The point that Matt makes.. which is a valid one.. is that Topica shouldn't be used by anyone because their existance makes spam even worse for all. You shouldn't enable spammers, and your use of their lists is doing just that. -- Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP System Engineer Time Inc. Information Technology [5957 F27C 9C71 E9A7 274A 0447 C9B9 75A4 9B41 D4D1] ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Landry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL Wow, what does any of this have to do with delivering legitimate messages rather than deleting them?  I do not intentionally deliver spam from any source, including these - but I do deliver the legitimate messages sent from any source (ah, the true benefits of a spam weighting system).  You, on the other hand, summarily delete anything that may come from a source of spam, whether the message is legitimate or not.  I simply do not understand this philosophy, nor that you would argue in favor of it.   Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL This took actual research to figure out :)  Topica is absolutely a spam house, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them populating their database with addresses and list demographics from Topica.com.  Many of the lists that Topica sends out are auto-subscribed to by a bot that they operate, so they are merely re-distributing much of the content.